As mentioned over on the Talisman Island Facebook page this week, Pegasus Spiele have just put a new entry up on their webstore for a German localisation of Talisman: Star Wars Edition from The Op!
It’s marked as coming in on the 15th of June, and I wonder if we’ll see any other localisations, perhaps from Galakta?
I’m a little late to the party with this news (though I did post about it on the Talisman Island Facebook page!) that Pegasus Spiele have announced that Tim Huckelbery has been hired as their new US Studio Editor and Talisman Brand Manager!
Tim has a long pedigree in the gaming industry, having worked for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games (amongst others!) in the past, even being responsible for the 3rd Edition reprint of Talisman whilst he was with GW USA!
The exciting bit about this news is that it appears that Pegasus Spiele will be putting more focus on the Talisman ‘brand’ in future, so we should see lots of news going forward.
Fingers crossed after we see the physical copies of the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG we might hear some more about the Talisman card game – Clash of Heroes – and the dice game that was also in development.
I wouldn’t say no to an expansion for Talisman: Legendary Tales either!
Maybe we’ll finally get to see if anything is happening with the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and the expansion that was teased last year during SPIEL at Essen.
This weekend sees CONspiracy 4, another online convention from Pegasus Spiele, where I believe we will see a stream from the US Studio with some of the current and upcoming products, so here’s hoping for namechecks for Talisman!
If you get yourselves over to the Twitch page of BoardGameGeek you’ll be able to take a look at the overview of Talisman: Star Wars Edition from The Op as part of the coverage of SPIEL.digital.
W Eric Martin, ably assisted remotely by Lincoln Damerst, chatted with Pat Marino and Sean Fletcher about what makes the game different from regular Talisman.
The game looks like a cool streamlined version of the game and takes a leaf out of Nomad Games‘ Talisman: The Horus Heresy digital game with Enemies and Followers featuring on the same card, depending on what your ‘alignment’ is.
As with Talisman: Batman Super-Villains Edition, there are no Toad equivalents in the game and your character becomes ‘Disoriented’ instead, though it seems The Grand Inquisitor is never affected!
It seems that the game will now be coming in January, so the earlier promised date has changed, but it’ll be here soon enough!
…and those character busts are amazing!!
A quick signal boost to mention that during Pegasus Spiele‘s English-language livestreaming from SPIEL.digital tonight there will be a chance to listen to me drone on about my favourite boardgame!
Hopefully it will be quite interesting, but you can always come early to check out the live play of the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG by How to Be a Great Game Master, or stick around afterwards to see what James Wallis has been up to!
I’ll be around from 21:30 BST!
Don’t forget tonight’s English language livestreams by Pegasus Spiele from SPIEL.digital which will be starting shortly.
Highlight for visitors to Talisman Island will be an interview with Ian Lemke and I suspect they might talk a little about the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG from 21:30 BST!
Tomorrow, there’s going to be a little chat with a certain fan of Talisman, which should be fun!
Well, there’s certainly a lot of Talisman going on at SPIEL.digital over the next few days, including playthroughs of the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG from Pegasus Spiele by How to Be a Great Game Master and Orkenspalter TV, and Talisman: Star Wars Edition from The Op by BoardGameGeek!
It seems that things have been moving in the run up to SPIEL.digital over on the Pegasus Spiele pages at DriveThruRPG!
The PDF of the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG by Ian Lemke is now on sale, along with a free PDF download of all the handouts and character sheets you are likely to need.
I’m not sure I’ll be picking up the PDF seeing as I have an order in for BOTH the standard and Limited Edition versions of the game and the accessory pack, so I think that’s perhaps a little excessive (even for me!)
It’s funny how things come about! Just a quick update to report that there’s a little more officially licensed Talisman gear available!
I posted a cheeky request on a tweet from the Warhammer Merch Store that their range was lacking an officially licensed mug for Talisman, and now you can buy one.
I’m hoping that at some point they might make the dragon artwork available as a mug, but small steps!
Great news if you are one of the people that adopted Talisman: Digital Edition from Nomad Games on PlayStation 4!
After a dog’s age lagging behind the other digital versions, due to the engine used for the game being retired, the PlayStation will be getting all of the recent updates and content that the rest of us have taken for granted.
Take yourself over to the latest developer’s blog on the Nomad Games site and see what’s in store!
There are no pics at the moment, but three new products have been added to the Pegasus Spiele store in readiness for the upcoming release of the Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG!
*UPDATE* There are now product pics for the books! Wow!!!
First up is the Talisman Adventures RPG Core Rulebook (Hardcover) which is priced at €49.99, then we have the Talisman Adventures RPG Core Rulebook (Hardcover) *Limited Edition* priced at €69.99, and something that I didn’t expect just yet, Talisman Adventures RPG Accessory Pack (Dice & Tokens) which will cost you €14.99!
The expected date for these seems to be the 15th of November, so you should be able to snag them before Christmas! No news as yet on the promised GM Screen and Starter Box, but I’ll keep my eyes open for those.
In other news it was mentioned over on Twitter recently that there will be a German language version of the RPG coming next year, so that’s another thing to look out for!
Talisman products on the Pegasus Spiele store
(Artwork shown – Broken Bridge from the Talisman Adventures Core Book)
